Helen Breil
Extra resources from Helen: Video one here - folded beads Video two here more about folded beads and here is her latest video showing how to create silk screens.
Helen's work is immaculate. Her books and her tutorials are exceptionally clear and full of useful tips. (Underneath the title above you will see access to a couple of her videos)
Her texture stamps remain popular and have been for a number of years. (See lower on this page)
Now we are pleased to be able to show you, and supply, her silk screens - with more of her original designs. The designs are shown below. And you can see her wonderful tutorial here
Her texture stamps remain popular and have been for a number of years. (See lower on this page)
Now we are pleased to be able to show you, and supply, her silk screens - with more of her original designs. The designs are shown below. And you can see her wonderful tutorial here
June 2016 - new images from silk screens by Helen
Silk screens
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Helen's texture plates:
Three new texture plates: September 2015:
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Helen's texture plates are now exceptionally popular. This is what the texture plates look like. They are 4" x 5" in size
For detailed instructions for obtaining the very best results with Helen's textures, click here. Helen has told us that the texture on these plates are thin enough to put through a pasta machine.
September 2013 - three new texture plates:
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Helen Breil's book Well, I downloaded the ‘free pages’ of Helen Breil’s book and convinced myself that I could work out the designs. Then I heard from others how much they had learned from the book and bought a copy. Thank goodness I did – it is superb. She is organised, she is clear thinking, she pays attention to detail and utilises all the advantages of it being an on line book: that is you can jump to relevant parts elsewhere with the click of a mouse. Isn’t it great that one can type in a word into the ‘find’ section of the PDF and find it immediately?
I really appreciate how she has used bold plain coloured clay for the tutorial photographs too – so many people use their textured and coloured pieces which can be such a distraction. Her tutorials are laid out so clearly as well.
I had already bought cotter pins having seen Helen’s designs previously. Now I know how to use them! I had also been shown the Fat Daddio cutters – they are quite brilliant so I will be acquiring some very soon. What is particularly useful however are the examples of how effectively one can use Helen’s lovely texture plates (and she has remembered to mention her husband’s ‘Pixie Art stamps’!).
Do I have any criticism? The only one I can think of is that in the UK we speak a different language so sometime one has to learn that, say, ‘rubbing alcohol’ is ‘surgical spirit’ or work out what ‘patty paper’ is. Also, many of the products mentioned are not easily available in the UK (for instance ‘Preserve your Memories’ is in a spray can and thus cannot be air shipped to the UK for security reasons.)
This is a book worth buying. It is not expensive yet if one overcomes the desire to touch and hold your book (you could always print it out!) then you can benefit from 180 pages of really good value learning in glorious colour.
I really appreciate how she has used bold plain coloured clay for the tutorial photographs too – so many people use their textured and coloured pieces which can be such a distraction. Her tutorials are laid out so clearly as well.
I had already bought cotter pins having seen Helen’s designs previously. Now I know how to use them! I had also been shown the Fat Daddio cutters – they are quite brilliant so I will be acquiring some very soon. What is particularly useful however are the examples of how effectively one can use Helen’s lovely texture plates (and she has remembered to mention her husband’s ‘Pixie Art stamps’!).
Do I have any criticism? The only one I can think of is that in the UK we speak a different language so sometime one has to learn that, say, ‘rubbing alcohol’ is ‘surgical spirit’ or work out what ‘patty paper’ is. Also, many of the products mentioned are not easily available in the UK (for instance ‘Preserve your Memories’ is in a spray can and thus cannot be air shipped to the UK for security reasons.)
This is a book worth buying. It is not expensive yet if one overcomes the desire to touch and hold your book (you could always print it out!) then you can benefit from 180 pages of really good value learning in glorious colour.
